The things I've experienced in my life may be richer than what most people experience in all their years. Even now, when I look back, it all seems bizarre and unreal. But it really happened, and I lived through it myself.
I want to write it all down, so that a hundred years from now, when I'm gone, someone will still know about it.
If, by chance, you're someone who appeared in my story and you're still alive and well, then there's no need to thank me. Just go to a crossroads at midnight on the third day of the third lunar month each year and burn a stick of incense for me.
I used to think I was an ordinary person, destined to live an ordinary life.
But when I was twenty-two, I inherited a shop at No. 13, Ghost Street, Guijie, from an uncle I hadn't seen in over a decade. From that moment on, my life took a turn away from the ordinary. I witnessed with my own eyes a world that is close to us, yet far away.
You think Guijie is just a place for crayfish?
You're wrong!
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
I watched the sky at night, and the ghost star was bright. And the ghosts here gather and never disperse. Not good!!! To fake a corpse!!!